{"id":2157516,"date":"2025-11-14T22:28:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T22:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2157516"},"modified":"2025-11-14T22:28:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T22:28:24","slug":"roman-reigns-and-cm-punk-playing-buddy-cops-in-new-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/roman-reigns-and-cm-punk-playing-buddy-cops-in-new-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Roman Reigns and CM Punk Playing Buddy Cops in New Movie?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After teaming up for the first time at WWE Survivor Series<\/a> 2025 in the Men\u2019s WarGames match, Roman Reigns <\/a>and CM Punk<\/a> are reuniting again \u2014 this time not in a steel cage, but as \u201czebra cops\u201d in Disney\u2019s Zootopia 2.<\/p>\n

The casting of Roman Reigns and CM Punk wasn\u2019t first revealed by industry insiders, but by the children of their own agent, Nick LoPiccolo. After days of teasing an announcement, LoPiccolo got scooped when veteran NFL reporter John McMullen posted a photo\u00a0on X<\/a>\u00a0showing LoPiccolo\u2019s kids standing in front of a Zootopia 2 display and mimicking the signature poses of Reigns and Punk.<\/p>\n

So it\u2019s almost official, Reigns and Punk will voice the film\u2019s \u201czebra cops,\u201d joining Dwayne \u201cThe Rock\u201d Johnson. The movie premieres this Thursday at the El Capitan Theatre in Los Angeles before its November 26 nationwide release.<\/p>\n

The sequel follows Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde. Now Reigns and Punk enter that world as zebra officers who bring a buddy-cop comedic edge to the film \u2014 a fun pairing for two men who have spent much of their WWE careers as rivals or uneasy allies.<\/p>\n

Opposite career tracks for CM Punk and Roman Reigns<\/h2>\n
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CM Punk and Roman Reigns, WWE<\/p>\n

For Roman Reigns, this casting fits what we\u2019ve seen throughout 2025. His WWE on-screen presence has decreased as he\u2019s invested more into outside projects. The biggest of these is the Street Fighter film where he\u2019s playing Akuma and has completed a multi-week shoot.<\/p>\n

He also appeared in Amazon Prime Video\u2019s The Pickup earlier this year and is adding to a growing resume that shows a gradual shift towards Hollywood. WWE seems to be preparing for a post-Reigns era.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, CM Punk is on the other end of the WWE spectrum right now. He\u2019s in the busiest in-ring stretch of his career. On November 1, he won the vacant World Heavyweight Championship and is adamant about defending it.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s back on Raw as the face of the company and his title defenses will be the main event of the big shows going into winter.<\/p>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source ca.news.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After teaming up for the first time at WWE Survivor Series 2025 in the Men\u2019s WarGames match, Roman Reigns and CM Punk are reuniting again \u2014 this time not in a steel cage, but as \u201czebra cops\u201d in Disney\u2019s Zootopia 2. The casting of Roman Reigns and CM Punk wasn\u2019t first revealed by industry insiders, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2157517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[359479,360095,391401,413201,362567,413202],"class_list":["post-2157516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-cm-punk","tag-dwayne-the-rock-johnson","tag-industry-insiders","tag-nick-lopiccolo","tag-roman-reigns","tag-wargames-match"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Roman-Reigns-and-CM-Punk-Playing-Buddy-Cops-in-New.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2157516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2157518,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157516\/revisions\/2157518"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2157517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2157516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2157516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2157516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}